Long-time Echo Park resident Joelle Dobrow is happy Saturday after receiving her Masters Degree in Arts Administration from Claremont's Drucker School of Management.
The ceremony took place at the Mudd Quadrangle Saturday morning in Claremont, California.
Dobrow, who has been studying part-time over the last two and a half years after a long career in television production, says she was especially excited about the day's keynote speaker, Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
She urged everyone in the audience to pursue their dreams no matter what their ages.
Dobrow, who founded the Edendale Library Friends Society (ELFS) eight years ago to support the then new-library's programs, credits the experience with inspiring her to return to graduate school.
Dobrow remains the ELFS president and hopes to get a related position at a literary nonprofit.
The Edendale Library Friends Society book sales, its primary fundraiser, are every Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the library's Community Room.
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